OUTLAW DREAMS
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Film Overview

Directed By: Howie Klausner View Official Website	Release Date: 2008-02-28 Running Time: 1:35 Content Rating: PG (Parental Guidance)	DVD Region: All Regions Media Format: NTSC-DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Audio Language(s): English Subtitle Language(s): English
Genres: Documentary >> Sports :: Sports >> Football Influences: REMEMBER THE TITANS // HOOP DREAMS // Friday Night Lights

Synopsis

A Team, A Town, A Dream

When writer-director-high school football coach Howie Klausner was introduced to the Billings Outlaws, it wasn’t to make a movie. He was conducting a “football charm school” for the new owners, assisting them in a much-needed Extreme Image Make-over for a team that desperately needed one.

But the instant Klausner looked out at a “room full of African Americans playing for 200 bucks a game in one of the whitest cities in America", the filmmaker’s instinct kicked in. Something incredible was about to happen. And it did.

This is the amazing and inspiring story of a minor league football team in America's backyard. Real Guys. Real Stories. Two completely opposite cultures meeting on the floor of a football arena, brought here by a single dream.

And a true to life ending so incredible, even the veteran screenwriter could scarcely imagine it.

These are the Outlaws. And these are their Dreams.

Cast

Starting Quarterback: Chris Dixon | bio
Chris actually played one of Samuel Jackson's players in the movie, COACH CARTER. Chris grew up in Oakland, and indeed played basketball for the legendary coach.

Crew

Executive Producer: Howard Klausner | bio
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Director: Howie Klausner | bio
HOWIE KLAUSNER has been writing screenplays, playing music and coaching high school football for over twenty years.

His most recognized credit as a writer is the Clint Eastwood film, SPACE COWBOYS (Warner Brothers, 2000), which Klausner co-authored with Ken Kaufman. While working with Mr. Eastwood, he wrote the TNT documentary, DIRTY HARRY, AN ORIGINAL. In 2005, Klausner penned the biography of Apollo Astronaut Pete Conrad, ROCKETMAN, (Penguin Books 2005).

As a singer-songwriter, Klausner and Outlaw Dreams’ award-winning- sound editor Ron Eng have played the coffeehouse-barroom-wedding circuit for fifteen years. Their first album, MEET THE MOVIES, was released in 2005. Selected songs appear as part of the Outlaw Dreams soundtrack.

A lifelong lover of football, Howie has coached at the high school level in Colorado, Southern California, and Washington State. He’s taken a two-year hiatus to produce this film.

Howie lives in Franklin Tennessee, with his wife and three daughters.
Producer: Ronald Eng
Composer: Ronald Eng
Producer: Doug Jackson
Picture Editor: Doug Jackson
Production Company: GigEng Productions, Inc.

Accolades

Press Reviews

Billings Gazette 2/28/08 | show/hide snippet
"As the end of the documentary drew near, even though they knew how it would end, moviegoers took Vanberg's words to heart, and nobody had to tell them to do it. They just stood up and cheered."

--Zach Benoit